"Sir! The attack aircraft unit was already entangled in German fighters ...... on the aircraft carrier Glorious on the surface of the sea, and Cunningham, the commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, heard what he did not want to hear. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Swordfish attack aircraft is obviously not a new product of World War II, on the contrary, it is a tombstone-like existence of the British Navy that is extremely backward in terms of experience and concept.

The Japanese attack aircraft and fighters, which were about the same age as the Swordfish attack aircraft, had already adopted the most advanced monoplane design at that time, and surpassed the aging Swordfish in terms of performance.

Coupled with the fact that the British can't think about the number of pilots, Britain, the old world ocean hegemon, has a terrible performance in the field of carrier-based aircraft.

Even the best fighter of the British Navy, the Sea Fighter, was a biplane fighter, and its performance was not at all comparable to that of the Luftwaffe.

And how many such naval fighters are there? At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, there were only 18 Sea Fighters - you read that right, the British Navy had a total of ...... 18 planes!

Although the war allowed a large number of weapons and equipment to be mass-produced, the British Navy did not complete its real improvement in equipment quality before falling into passivity.

Attack aircraft still have to rely only on Swordfish, fighters...... It's still in short supply. In real historical time and space, the naval fighters used by the British Navy were sea hurricanes converted from roadbed fighter hurricanes.

The special naval fighter being designed is called the Guanbi Yan, and it is still the avant-garde design of the two pilots -- I have to admit that the stubbornness of the British is simply inexplicably joyful.

Having said that, it is simply impossible to expect the British, now equipped with the most Swordfish attack aircraft, to meet the roadbed ME-109E fighters equipped by the Luftwaffe.

Both aircraft are not at all a purpose, or even a weapon of the age! The Germans were too good for fighters, and the poor British Swordfish attack aircraft were too backward.

Frankly speaking, the weakness of the German Navy gave the British Navy time to be lazy, and if the British Royal Navy Air Force in 40 years had collided with the Japanese Naval Air Force, the British would probably have lost rhythmically.

The A5M96 carrier-based fighters equipped by the Japanese at this time are not much stronger than the Sea Fighters, and the Japanese Nakajima and 97 attack aircraft are better than the Swordfish...... It's all tears.

At this moment, the German Navy is training on the Zeppelin aircraft carrier in the Baltic Sea, carrying two carrier-based aircraft: ME-109T and JU-87C.

That is, in the real World War II, Germany did not have weapons and equipment that could threaten the air defense of the British fleet throughout the whole process, otherwise the Royal Navy might really be annihilated due to the tactical generational difference.

Cunningham knew what the consequences would be if his plane became entangled with German roadbed fighters.

"These planes are probably not coming back...... We followed the predetermined route and continued westward. Canning glanced at the officer who had come to report and said with some loneliness.

As the commander of the Mediterranean Fleet of the British Royal Navy, he was also an ordinary officer, and the Royal Navy of the British Empire still had its own glorious afterglow in the era when he entered the war.

At that time, the British Royal Navy had fleets all over the world, and the tonnage of warships was more than that of the world's second navy and the world's third naval power combined.

He had seen the power of the Royal Navy - but the glory of the past was now a thing of the past, and the British Empire, like a decaying tree, had long since lost its former glory at this moment.

The era of carrier-based aircraft has come, but Britain is not ready...... I heard that the German Navy is building a new fleet around the Zeppelin aircraft carrier, and I wonder if the British aircraft carrier Ark Royal has the strength to fight a war.

Standing on the bridge and watching his fleet go all the way west, the lonely Cunningham put his hands behind his back, thinking about the future of the British Royal Navy......

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Over the port of Sirte, the situation had turned into a one-sided slaughter at this time, German fighters swooped down from the sky one after another, and the British swordfish hid but could not escape the pursuit of so many German fighters.

Two German fighters covered each other and bit a British Swordfish trying to get out of the field, and the bullets knocked the plane into parts in an instant.

Although the structure of the Swordfish attack aircraft is relatively strong, it cannot withstand the powerful ravages of the shaft gun on the ME-109E fighter.

When the 10th Swordfish attack aircraft was smashed into a sieve and crashed into the ground, the plane of the commander of the British attack aircraft group was still flying in the sky.

He piloted his plane to avoid the teasing of the two ME-109E fighters, and commanded desperately on the radio: "All planes should break out and return home on their own!" ”

Then, in full view, a German fighter rushed at his fighter and poured its own bullets on his fighter.

The Swordfish attack aircraft was finally hit by a bullet and began to lose its altitude with smoke in tow. British commander Williamson clutched his bullet-pierced thigh and watched his plane rush to the ground.

The commander of British naval aviation, who was supposed to be famous for commanding air strikes on Taranto, reached the pinnacle of his life in the Battle of Benghazi.

Before he took off to bomb Sirte, he had just been promised a lieutenant commander by Cunningham, but in this air raid on the port of Sirte, he was shot down by a novice German pilot, which became the opponent's first achievement.

"Long live the British Empire!" Having lost control of the plane, he shouted his last words into the intercom and crashed into a German-built floating dock.

The huge explosion caused the floating dock to start flooding, and the German engineers and Italian soldiers on the ground, despite the fierce fighting overhead, began to repair the floating dock.

The British pilots did not discover why the German engineers, who were supposed to be hidden, braved the hail of bullets to rush out to repair a dock -- now they were too busy to take care of what was on the ground.

If they had had had time to analyze carefully, observe carefully, and then attack the dock experiments, then perhaps they would have discovered the secret of the rapid construction of the docks by the Germans.

However, the current British Swordfish attack planes are evading the pursuit of German fighters, and they are falling one after another, but they have never been able to get rid of the guns of German fighters.

In the sky, in the cabin of the first cadet training plane, the German novice pilots were cheering for their first victory, and the second batch of German fighters also joined the battle group at this time.

The German planes were able to find all the fighter units near Sirte -- all 38 fighters had taken off to meet them, and even the four ME-110 fighters in charge of patrolling had been pulled out.

Both in terms of quantity and quality, the fighters flown by the Luftwaffe had an absolute advantage. They simply did not spare any reason for these British attack aircraft in front of them, so there was no reason for the British fighters to escape.

The last two Swordfish fighters had already flown far to the surface of the sea, but they were still shot down by the German fighters who were chasing them.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon of October 13, the German fighters returned home in triumph, and they shot down all the British intruders, not a single one.

However, the six JU-87 Stuka dive bombers that took off from the airfield near the coastline did not find the British fleet, and they searched the nearby sea, and finally ran out of fuel and had to return.

In the German-Italian Afrika Korps front headquarters on the outskirts of Tanta, an officer told Rommel the news of the attack on Sirte: "General! Sirte had been attacked by British carrier-based aircraft half an hour earlier...... No news of the results has been delivered. ”

"Andrew? Brown? Cunningham...... If his brother had been half as good as him, I might still be in Matru right now. Rommel frowned and glanced at the map in front of him, and said this happily.

"Have we counted our losses...... Will it become a second Benghazi? Rommel asked with trepidation, remembering a rough report on the damage in Benghazi sent by the Italian liaison officer an hour earlier.

When he saw the data on the damage, he was still terrified when he thought about it - Benghazi had almost been wiped off the map, and the material damage was in the thousands, and it was even more difficult to rebuild.

"General...... Our damage report hasn't come out yet, but a few minutes ago Sirte gave the story that the damage could be sustained, so it won't be as bad as Benghazi, right? Lieutenant General Alfred, chief of staff of the Afrika Korps, replied to Rommel.

Rommel nodded, agreeing. He also didn't want to see a second Benghazi fiasco, the same thing happened twice, it was the rhythm of being slapped in the face by the other party.

"The Italian fleet is already rushing to Malta, and submarine forces and destroyer forces are spreading search nets in the waters off Benghazi." Lieutenant General Alfred pointed to the sea on the map and drew it hastily.

"If the British Navy returns, we have a good chance of inflicting heavy damage on the British Mediterranean Fleet." Finally, a lieutenant general of the engineering corps, who did not understand naval warfare, comforted an army armored corps general.

"We have lost, Mr. Chief...... In a few days, whatever remained of the Mediterranean fleet, they would be there - two ports for a fleet that was about to be driven out of the Mediterranean...... The British won. Rommel did not accept the other party's safety, and said with a sneer.